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Gore Poised to Defeat Challenger in November: WASHINGTON: In a ceremony on the White House lawn today, President Al Gore announced the invention of the newest generation of the Internet, Internet-IV. On the heels of a poll showing Gore leading his Republican challenger by 10 points in November's re-election contest, Gore showed no signs of slowing down his administration's agenda and used his speech to review some of its major accomplishments to date...
...Brine-cured cheese 2. Antiquing agent 3. Who -- Turn To 4. Winds up 5. Defeat soundly 6. __ up (angry) 7. Psyche parts 8. Ho-hum 9. Puppeteer Rufus, whose family is in a custody battle for Howdy Doody 10. State with conviction 11. Campus bigwig 19. Business-card abbr. 20. Schooner filler 22. "Cease!" at sea 23. Rocky -- 24. Adjective for the Beatles 25. Suffix with expert 26. S or N 27. It may be lent or bent 29. Doris Day title starter 30. William Tell's canton 31. Pothook shape 32. Rode the bench 34. Mauna __ 37. Wall...
...really began with Napoleon and forces unleashed during the French Revolution. By mobilizing the full resources of France, Napoleon created a new approach to warfare. Young people were drafted, centralized administrative structures were created, and arms production was expanded and standardized. In this new approach the stakes were high. Defeat meant the loss of the state and its territories, as a number of European monarchs discovered...
...battle raging around Jaffna underscores Sri Lanka's difficulty in containing a separatist insurgency that has raged for 17 years and claimed some 55,000 lives. The government remains committed to a two-pronged strategy of seeking to militarily defeat the guerrillas while offering greater political autonomy to the Tamil minority from which they're drawn. But Prime Minister Kumaratunga has struggled to secure domestic political support for the autonomy plan, let alone engender Tamil enthusiasm. And a military defeat of the Tigers looks more and more like wishful thinking. Israel is reported to have recently helped out the government...
Most of all, the Bloke does not whinge. This is a combination of whining and cringing, commonly associated with Britons. In the antipodes we like it gritty. This is why Australia's biggest national holiday--Anzac Day--marks its worst military defeat. We know how to take a beating...